Windows Jobs in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Windows
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Windows skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Windows over the 6 months leading up to 17 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 12 16
Rank change year-on-year -5 +4 +4
Permanent jobs citing Windows 3,459 7,422 6,170
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.69% 9.15% 11.30%
As % of the Operating Systems category 68.60% 66.99% 66.75%
Number of salaries quoted 2,381 5,820 4,085
10th Percentile £26,250 £24,696 £24,750
25th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £28,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £37,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year - -6.25% -
75th Percentile £47,500 £52,500 £55,000
90th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £66,625
UK median annual salary £40,000 £40,000 £43,750
% change year-on-year - -8.57% +0.41%

All Operating Systems
UK excluding London

Windows falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring operating system skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 5,042 11,079 9,243
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.67% 13.65% 16.93%
Number of salaries quoted 3,060 8,249 5,877
10th Percentile £26,250 £25,500 £25,575
25th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -5.56% -
75th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £60,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £73,100
UK median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - -14.29% -

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Windows as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Windows in the UK excluding London

Windows
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Windows in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Windows in the UK excluding London

Windows
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 17 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Windows in the UK excluding London

Windows
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Windows within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 17 June 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England -4 1,032 £34,500 -8.00% 2,628
South East -6 923 £38,325 -4.19% 2,995
Midlands -1 749 £36,925 +5.50% 1,913
North West -14 576 £37,500 -6.25% 1,372
West Midlands +2 508 £36,925 +5.50% 1,039
Yorkshire +4 402 £32,250 -12.84% 1,041
South West -4 331 £35,000 -12.50% 1,465
East of England -23 308 £43,000 +32.31% 1,651
East Midlands -12 239 £32,500 -2.99% 859
Scotland -23 91 £45,000 +5.88% 680
Wales -9 53 £51,250 +63.27% 344
North East -11 52 £40,000 +23.08% 220
Northern Ireland -4 5 £50,000 +33.33% 205
Isle of Man +3 1 £34,500 -21.14% 1
Channel Islands - 1 £45,000 -
South Coast - 1 £59,000 -
Windows
UK

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 410 (11.85%) Microsoft Exchange
2 281 (8.12%) SharePoint
3 81 (2.34%) IIS
4 65 (1.88%) Confluence
5 43 (1.24%) Apache
6 14 (0.40%) Tomcat
7 13 (0.38%) Exchange Server 2013
8 10 (0.29%) OpenEdge
9 7 (0.20%) IBM Domino
9 7 (0.20%) SharePoint Server
9 7 (0.20%) WordPress
10 5 (0.14%) CMS
10 5 (0.14%) nginx
10 5 (0.14%) Skype for Business
11 4 (0.12%) Apache Solr
11 4 (0.12%) Exchange Server 2010
11 4 (0.12%) OpenStack
11 4 (0.12%) SAS
12 3 (0.087%) Exchange Server 2007
12 3 (0.087%) Office Communications Server
Applications
1 326 (9.42%) Microsoft Office
2 73 (2.11%) Microsoft Excel
3 34 (0.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
4 8 (0.23%) MS Visio
4 8 (0.23%) Trello
5 7 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
6 6 (0.17%) Mozilla Thunderbird
7 2 (0.058%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 2 (0.058%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.029%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.029%) Autodesk Inventor
8 1 (0.029%) GNU Octave
8 1 (0.029%) Simulink
8 1 (0.029%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 25 (0.72%) Dynamics NAV
2 11 (0.32%) Remedy ITSM
3 10 (0.29%) NetSuite
4 9 (0.26%) SAP Business One
5 8 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
6 7 (0.20%) SAP ERP
7 6 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
8 4 (0.12%) Oracle Applications
8 4 (0.12%) Sage 1000
9 3 (0.087%) Dynamics CRM
9 3 (0.087%) Sage 50
10 2 (0.058%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
10 2 (0.058%) Oracle ERP
11 1 (0.029%) assyst
11 1 (0.029%) Dynamics GP
11 1 (0.029%) Elite 3E
11 1 (0.029%) iTrent
11 1 (0.029%) Magento
11 1 (0.029%) Oracle Payables
11 1 (0.029%) SAP MDM
Cloud Services
1 1,180 (34.11%) Microsoft 365
2 931 (26.92%) Azure
3 283 (8.18%) Entra ID
4 256 (7.40%) AWS
5 100 (2.89%) SaaS
6 90 (2.60%) OneDrive
7 53 (1.53%) IaaS
8 47 (1.36%) PaaS
9 43 (1.24%) Power Platform
10 38 (1.10%) GCP
11 35 (1.01%) Azure DevOps
12 34 (0.98%) Google Workspace
13 30 (0.87%) Amazon EC2
14 29 (0.84%) PowerApps
15 27 (0.78%) Amazon S3
15 27 (0.78%) Mimecast
16 25 (0.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 25 (0.72%) Nutanix
17 24 (0.69%) Cloud Computing
18 22 (0.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 621 (17.95%) Firewall
2 552 (15.96%) VPN
3 378 (10.93%) DNS
4 315 (9.11%) Cisco IOS
5 308 (8.90%) DHCP
6 304 (8.79%) WAN
7 293 (8.47%) LAN
8 273 (7.89%) TCP/IP
9 164 (4.74%) VLAN
10 158 (4.57%) VoIP
11 134 (3.87%) SAN
12 132 (3.82%) Wi-Fi
13 92 (2.66%) Wireless
14 84 (2.43%) Network Security
15 77 (2.23%) Broadband
16 59 (1.71%) Remote Desktop
17 54 (1.56%) NAS
18 50 (1.45%) Internet
19 44 (1.27%) SD-WAN
20 28 (0.81%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 207 (5.98%) SQL Server
2 64 (1.85%) Amazon RDS
3 63 (1.82%) Relational Database
4 55 (1.59%) MySQL
5 38 (1.10%) PostgreSQL
6 23 (0.66%) RDBMS
7 18 (0.52%) Power BI
8 12 (0.35%) DB2
8 12 (0.35%) Elasticsearch
9 11 (0.32%) NoSQL
9 11 (0.32%) Oracle Database
10 8 (0.23%) Data Warehouse
10 8 (0.23%) GIS
10 8 (0.23%) MongoDB
11 6 (0.17%) Azure SQL Database
11 6 (0.17%) Data Hub
11 6 (0.17%) Oracle Exadata
11 6 (0.17%) Oracle Reports
11 6 (0.17%) SQL CLR
12 5 (0.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 111 (3.21%) JIRA
2 91 (2.63%) Git
3 62 (1.79%) Cucumber
3 62 (1.79%) Robot Framework
4 40 (1.16%) Jenkins
5 37 (1.07%) Bitbucket
6 25 (0.72%) Eclipse
6 25 (0.72%) Eclipse RCP
7 22 (0.64%) Vagrant
8 18 (0.52%) Visual Studio
9 15 (0.43%) MSI
10 11 (0.32%) Sonatype Nexus
11 10 (0.29%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 7 (0.20%) Octopus Deploy
13 6 (0.17%) GitLab
13 6 (0.17%) Selenium
13 6 (0.17%) TeamCity
14 5 (0.14%) Oracle Forms
15 4 (0.12%) SpecFlow
15 4 (0.12%) Subversion
General
1 1,159 (33.51%) Social Skills
2 480 (13.88%) Analytical Skills
3 450 (13.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 185 (5.35%) Finance
5 141 (4.08%) Organisational Skills
6 133 (3.85%) Telecoms
7 127 (3.67%) Manufacturing
8 116 (3.35%) Retail
9 92 (2.66%) Esports
10 77 (2.23%) Law
11 71 (2.05%) Legal
12 70 (2.02%) Public Sector
13 48 (1.39%) Automotive
14 38 (1.10%) Electronics
15 36 (1.04%) Back Office
16 31 (0.90%) Advertising
17 30 (0.87%) Documentation Skills
18 29 (0.84%) Banking
19 25 (0.72%) Presentation Skills
20 24 (0.69%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 666 (19.25%) IT Support
2 495 (14.31%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 476 (13.76%) Support Engineer
4 424 (12.26%) Analyst
5 309 (8.93%) IT Engineer
6 247 (7.14%) Support Analyst
7 217 (6.27%) 2nd Line Support
8 188 (5.44%) IT Analyst
9 167 (4.83%) IT Support Engineer
10 165 (4.77%) Senior
11 154 (4.45%) Lead
12 142 (4.11%) 1st Line Support
13 134 (3.87%) IT Support Analyst
14 133 (3.85%) Support Technician
15 126 (3.64%) Technical Support
16 119 (3.44%) Infrastructure Support
17 107 (3.09%) 3rd Line Support
18 105 (3.04%) Administrator
19 92 (2.66%) Desktop Support
20 90 (2.60%) IT Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 267 (7.72%) Elastic Stack
2 107 (3.09%) .NET
3 45 (1.30%) HTML
4 42 (1.21%) CSS
5 41 (1.19%) Middleware
6 25 (0.72%) JSP
6 25 (0.72%) REST
7 21 (0.61%) ASP.NET
8 16 (0.46%) .NET Framework
8 16 (0.46%) LDAP
9 14 (0.40%) .NET Core
9 14 (0.40%) JSON
10 13 (0.38%) XML
11 11 (0.32%) Entity Framework
11 11 (0.32%) WinForms
12 9 (0.26%) MFC
12 9 (0.26%) SOAP
13 8 (0.23%) ASP.NET Core
13 8 (0.23%) SAML
14 7 (0.20%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 575 (16.62%) Social Media
2 260 (7.52%) Cyberattack
3 208 (6.01%) Driving Licence
4 107 (3.09%) Management Information System
4 107 (3.09%) Self-Motivation
5 99 (2.86%) Onboarding
6 92 (2.66%) Data Centre
7 82 (2.37%) Operational Technology
8 69 (1.99%) Linux Command Line
9 56 (1.62%) Replication
10 47 (1.36%) CCTV
11 41 (1.19%) IoT
12 40 (1.16%) Clustering
13 31 (0.90%) Video Conferencing
14 29 (0.84%) Mobile App
15 28 (0.81%) Hybrid Cloud
16 26 (0.75%) PKI
16 26 (0.75%) Team-Oriented Environment
17 25 (0.72%) Private Cloud
17 25 (0.72%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 917 (26.51%) Windows Server
2 879 (25.41%) Linux
3 551 (15.93%) Windows Vista
4 411 (11.88%) Windows 10
5 392 (11.33%) Android
6 178 (5.15%) Mac OS
7 140 (4.05%) Windows Server 2019
8 113 (3.27%) Windows Server 2012
9 107 (3.09%) Windows Server 2016
10 102 (2.95%) Apple iOS
11 76 (2.20%) Unix
12 40 (1.16%) Mac OS X
13 38 (1.10%) VMS
13 38 (1.10%) Windows 7
14 33 (0.95%) Ubuntu
15 29 (0.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 18 (0.52%) CentOS
17 12 (0.35%) AIX
18 9 (0.26%) Rocky
19 8 (0.23%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,149 (33.22%) Problem-Solving
2 563 (16.28%) Customer Service
3 528 (15.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 457 (13.21%) DevOps
5 427 (12.34%) ITIL
6 390 (11.27%) Cybersecurity
7 366 (10.58%) Mathematics
8 342 (9.89%) Line Management
9 309 (8.93%) Task Automation
10 282 (8.15%) Risk Management
11 281 (8.12%) Platform Engineering
11 281 (8.12%) Storage Management
12 264 (7.63%) Mentoring
13 249 (7.20%) Computer Science
14 214 (6.19%) Coaching
15 199 (5.75%) Continuous Improvement
16 193 (5.58%) Agile
17 145 (4.19%) ITSM
18 134 (3.87%) Disaster Recovery
19 130 (3.76%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 725 (20.96%) PowerShell
2 521 (15.06%) Python
3 393 (11.36%) Bash
4 271 (7.83%) SQL
5 142 (4.11%) C#
6 115 (3.32%) JavaScript
7 85 (2.46%) Java
8 51 (1.47%) C++
9 23 (0.66%) C
9 23 (0.66%) Groovy
10 22 (0.64%) Ada
10 22 (0.64%) PHP
10 22 (0.64%) Rust
11 21 (0.61%) VBA
12 15 (0.43%) Progress 4GL
12 15 (0.43%) T-SQL
13 14 (0.40%) Perl
14 13 (0.38%) Shell Script
15 12 (0.35%) VB
16 10 (0.29%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 627 (18.13%) Degree
2 606 (17.52%) DBS Check
3 265 (7.66%) Security Cleared
4 257 (7.43%) Microsoft Certification
5 156 (4.51%) SC Cleared
6 127 (3.67%) DV Cleared
7 117 (3.38%) A+ Certification
8 82 (2.37%) Cisco Certification
9 78 (2.25%) MCSA
10 69 (1.99%) Azure Certification
11 67 (1.94%) Computer Science Degree
11 67 (1.94%) MCSE
12 62 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
13 59 (1.71%) CCNA
14 58 (1.68%) Network+ Certification
15 55 (1.59%) MCP
16 38 (1.10%) CCNP
17 35 (1.01%) Master's Degree
18 33 (0.95%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
19 30 (0.87%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 166 (4.80%) SLA
2 95 (2.75%) QA
3 86 (2.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 77 (2.23%) GDPR
5 57 (1.65%) Cyber Essentials
6 21 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 19 (0.55%) NIST
8 14 (0.40%) PCI DSS
9 10 (0.29%) COBIT
10 6 (0.17%) Accessibility
10 6 (0.17%) ISO 9001
10 6 (0.17%) NCSC
11 3 (0.087%) ISO 14001
11 3 (0.087%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.087%) Software Quality Assurance
12 2 (0.058%) ISO 13485
12 2 (0.058%) ISO 9000
12 2 (0.058%) PMO
13 1 (0.029%) HL7
13 1 (0.029%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1,206 (34.87%) Active Directory
2 541 (15.64%) Hyper-V
3 375 (10.84%) VMware Infrastructure
4 334 (9.66%) Docker
5 320 (9.25%) vSphere
6 270 (7.81%) VMware NSX
7 79 (2.28%) VMware ESXi
8 67 (1.94%) Virtual Servers
9 62 (1.79%) Virtual Desktop
10 43 (1.24%) Virtual Machines
11 37 (1.07%) Firmware
12 29 (0.84%) Terminal Services
13 22 (0.64%) BitLocker
14 18 (0.52%) DFS Replication
15 16 (0.46%) XenApp
16 9 (0.26%) Microsoft App-V
17 6 (0.17%) NFS
18 4 (0.12%) Citrix Hypervisor
19 3 (0.087%) Dovecot
19 3 (0.087%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 403 (11.65%) Ansible
2 361 (10.44%) Terraform
3 335 (9.68%) Microsoft Intune
4 98 (2.83%) SCCM
5 62 (1.79%) Kubernetes
6 42 (1.21%) Puppet
7 31 (0.90%) Grafana
8 29 (0.84%) vCenter Server
9 27 (0.78%) Prometheus
10 24 (0.69%) Jamf Pro
11 22 (0.64%) SCOM
11 22 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
12 20 (0.58%) FortiGate
13 18 (0.52%) WMI
14 14 (0.40%) Backup Exec
14 14 (0.40%) Proxmox
14 14 (0.40%) vMotion
15 11 (0.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 11 (0.32%) Autotask
15 11 (0.32%) SmoothWall
Vendors
1 1,512 (43.71%) Microsoft
2 556 (16.07%) Cisco
3 519 (15.00%) VMware
4 293 (8.47%) Juniper
5 285 (8.24%) Splunk
6 260 (7.52%) 3PAR
7 143 (4.13%) Apple
8 105 (3.04%) Veeam
9 90 (2.60%) ServiceNow
10 87 (2.52%) Meraki
11 81 (2.34%) Citrix
12 70 (2.02%) Sun
13 68 (1.97%) Google
14 64 (1.85%) Oracle
15 58 (1.68%) HP
16 55 (1.59%) Dell
17 45 (1.30%) SAP
18 39 (1.13%) Atlassian
18 39 (1.13%) Fortinet
19 38 (1.10%) Sophos